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Table 2 Comparison between HPC pipelines for de novo transcriptome assembly: usability and technical features

From: HPC-T-Assembly: a pipeline for de novo transcriptome assembly of large multi-specie datasets

Tools

GUI for setting parameters

HPC support

Virtual environments

Handling multiple-species datasets

Scalability HPC

transXpress [46]

Not present

Snakemake

Conda

No

Yes

RNAflow [47]

Not present

Nextflow

Conda and docker/singularity

No

Yes

Pincho [19]

Not present

SLURM

Not needed

No

Yes

HPC-T-Assembly

Present (Windows, MacOS, Android, Unix-like)

SLURM

Not needed

Yes

Yes